Re: [GD-General] Pyrogon Postmortem

[Mike W. <mi...@ge...>]

no prob, they've been our 'hidden secret' for a while ;}

i do agree about the idea of a portal for indie games though - this is 
what i was trying to do with a publishing arm of our company (basically 
a front end for a plimus storefront), but being a 2 person company, we 
had to prioritize - and we chose to focus on our game engine (seeing as 
it's our main revenue source at this point).

but i'd definitely say that the idea is a valid one judging from the 
responses we got when asking around about the feasibility of the project.

maybe once the E3 madness dies down around here i'll have a spare moment 
to finish up the portal idea i was workin on - we have the domain for 
the concept (www.gamingzone.ca) - just have to clone myself a few times 
so i can finish getting the games online

mike w
www.realityfactory.ca

Colin Fahey wrote:

> 
>>www.plimus.com
>>www.esellerate.net
> 
> 
> Fantastic!  This world is not all crazy!
> 
> Thanks, Mike, for pointing out those companies.  Honestly, just
> seeing these sites, and seeing your comment ("we've been selling
> our game engine through these sites for 10 months now have been 
> 100% rock-solid"), is like a breath of fresh air.
> 
> Wow, I kind of wish I spent the past four months trying to 
> bring a PC game to market instead of the BREW game with a
> giant question mark about whether or not I'll see a single
> penny for my efforts.
> 
> My next game will be for the PC, that's for sure...
> 
> Again, thank you for the links, Mike.  As you say,
> "no crap-ass publisher, no 'middle man'. the 10% ecommerce
> fee and that's it. no bs."  I'm amazed how closely those
> sites come to what I was imagining.
> 
> Awesome.  Not many things go in my anti-cynicism column,
> but this is definitely going to cancel out a lot of stuff
> in the other half of the karmic spreadsheet.
> 
> --- Colin
> 
> P.S.:
> 
> However, don't you find the "Realtime-Spy" product featured
> on the home page of http://www.plimus.com to be a little 
> creepy? :-)  I guess the product description proves that
> this site is not biased about products they carry:
> 
>     Spytech Realtime-Spy is the latest in cutting-edge
>     computer monitoring spy software technology that
>     allows you to monitor ANY PC from ANYWHERE.
>     Realtime-Spy is remotely deployable (no physical
>     installation needed), and its activity logs are
>     accessible from anywhere - regardless if the remote
>     PC is online or not. Realtime-Spy logs all keystrokes,
>     websites, applications ran, e-mails sent, and more.
> 
> Claims like these make me chuckle.  Why not just monitor
> the PCs of CEOs and make a killing on the stock market?
> 
> I'm waiting for the day when everyone just watches everyone
> else, and it just confirms that we are all human beings.
> The product might as well be called "Spy on Yourself!" --
> it would come with a mirror, an echo box so you would 
> hear your own speech repeated moments later ("Real Time!"),
> and would include software that would monitor your keystrokes
> and even highlight/underline spelling errors in red and
> grammatical errors in green, and pop up an "Assistant" to
> even help you compose a letter...No, dammit, I'm not writing
> a letter!  Go away!...Then you'll look in the supplied 
> mirror and laugh at your victim, who is totally being 
> spied upon, and being harassed and humiliated by automated
> spelling and grammar checking.  Poor fool -- I see and hear
> everything he (or she) does, and I have total access to 
> everything the guy (or girl) owns.
> 
> Hee, hee!
> 
> 
> 
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